Friday, November 14, 2014

The international airport in Fort Lauderdale on its way to
become a real competition for Miami – the biggest airport in South-Florida.

A few year ago, Broward County started their update and expansion
of the Fort Lauderdale airport FLL. The runways on the airport was not long
enough for the bigger airlines from overseas and therefore the incoming
foreigners often had to make a stop in one of the bigger airports like Atlanta
or New York to change to a smaller aircraft.

The airport expansion was very controversial because of the
noise level that comes with it. However, the Broward County help the homeowners
nearby to get noise protection at their houses.

On September 18, the new runway opened and marked the
completion of the major improvement part of the project. With this new runway,
many new air carriers can use this airport. The runway that was expended to the
east above the Federal Highway (US 1) is capable to handle aircrafts like the
747.

This runway expansion brought already new airlines with
direct connections from Europe and there are more to come. The costs for the
aircraft service and turn around are much cheaper than in Miami and that is a
big benefit for the airlines.

On my event yesterday, I already heard many comments from very
satisfied customer. It is not only the service at the airport but also the less
jammed roads to and from the airport.

The face-lift is not yet finished. The next portion is the
renovation and the remodeling of the existing airport facilities and the
construction of a new concourse to handle the growing passenger numbers.

I am very excited to see the finished result. For my trip to
Europe, I will certainly use this airport.

Monday, November 10, 2014

You don’t believe it? It is true. Today Miami got its own
piece of the Wall of Berlin at their Miami Dade College Wolfson Campus. Now Miami is one of the many
cities that got their own piece of the most dangerous wall in the world. The
state of Germany gifted the piece and it was presented in an official act from
the Consul General of Germany in Miami.

The death wall that separated the City of Berlin into two
parts felt exactly 25 years ago. The wall was built in 1961 to protect the
eastern German citizens for the evil of the western world. However, the real
reason was to prevent East-Germans from escaping into the western part of
Berlin and into West Germany.

The wall went right through the Downtown area of Berlin and
enclosed the complete western part of the city. The western part of the City
were the areas of the allies United States, British and France and the eastern
part of the city was the Soviet part. The Americans were the strongest partners
during that hard time. They always protected the city and without their help,
the history of Germany would have been a different one.

In 1961, the dividing wall was started as a normal stone
brick wall and was reinforced over the years. During the worst times and I know
it from my own experience the wall had a several meters wide mine fields. The officers
with dogs controlled the border with that death corridor and right on, the
other side of the wall was a vital and strong city that never gave up the hope
for the reunion.

Then on November 9 1989 it happens – this deadliest wall of
all broke down and people from both sides of the wall climbed onto the top of
wall and started to demolish it. It was over!

Today you only see some monumental ruins in heart of Berlin
and the rest of the wall was exported all over the world as a reminder:

A wall can separate people
but when they poke long enough into the wall, it will get weak and break.

Normally I wish sunny greeting from Florida but today it was
raining like in Germany in November but it was 20 degrees warmer.

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